Practical Platform Engineering in 5 Lunches: 1. Getting Started

Matthew Casperson's blog post series "Practical Platform Engineering in 5 Lunches" guides readers through developing an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Octopus Deploy. Designed to be completed within lunch breaks, each post takes about 30 minutes, requiring only a free trial of Octopus and no additional platforms. The introductory post establishes the basic prerequisites and concepts, including definitions of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and IDPs. Casperson argues DevOps has become a broad, unfalsifiable term, while Platform Engineering is about scaling architectural decisions to streamline CI/CD processes. Octopus supports Platform Engineering through a Platform Hub, which leverages Git workflows for maintaining and distributing shared processes and policies. By the end of the post, readers have set up a trial Octopus instance, installed the Octopus AI Assistant Chrome extension, and gained foundational knowledge for the series, with future posts delving into Kubernetes deployment projects.

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